My journey
What inspired me to become a mental health professional?
As a college goer, I had no idea I would end up being a mental health professional. It was completely accidental.
Carl Jung coined the phrase “wounded healer” to describe a person who uses their own past experiences of pain, trauma or vulnerability to empathise deeply with their clients to provide understanding and support. It was only when I began my training in counselling that I became aware of the many traumas that I had been through. Birth trauma due to being kept in incubator away from my mother, school trauma of being shamed for being poor at maths and science. These and a few other childhood experiences had greatly shaped my subconscious understanding of myself, my worth, my place in the world and therefore my responses to the world.
In 2006 I was undergoing an intense training program where it was mandatory for me to be in personal therapy myself, and I began to fully recognise my emotional wounds. I began working on myself and this journey of looking within and lookingdeeper is something that I haven’t stopped since then. As an ethical practitioner, I continue to be in regular personal therapy and under supervision. Along the way I tried psychodrama, transactional analysis, breathwork, past liferegression, spiritual practises, inner child healing.
I am a life-long learner and have always been in some form of training program since 2000.Discovering an emotional block or wound in myself is like a red rag being waved in front of a bull. I cannot not work on healing and unravelling it to get past it or grow beyond it.
What inspired me to become a mental health professional?
As a college goer, I had no idea I would end up being a mental health professional. It was completely accidental.
Carl Jung coined the phrase “wounded healer” to describe a person who uses their own past experiences of pain, trauma or vulnerability to empathise deeply with their clients to provide understanding and support. It was only when I began my training in counselling that I became aware of the many traumas that I had been through. Birth trauma due to being kept in incubator away from my mother, school trauma of being shamed for being poor at maths and science. These and a few other childhood experiences had greatly shaped my subconscious understanding of myself, my worth, my place in the world and therefore my responses to the world.
In 2006 I was undergoing an intense training program where it was mandatory for me to be in personal therapy myself, and I began to fully recognise my emotional wounds. I began working on myself and this journey of looking within and lookingdeeper is something that I haven’t stopped since then. As an ethical practitioner, I continue to be in regular personal therapy and under supervision. Along the way I tried psychodrama, transactional analysis, breathwork, past liferegression, spiritual practises, inner child healing.
I am a life-long learner and have always been in some form of training program since 2000.Discovering an emotional block or wound in myself is like a red rag being waved in front of a bull. I cannot not work on healing and unravelling it to get past it or grow beyond it.
My qualifications include:
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M.Sc Psychology (Madras University)
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SAATA Diploma (South Asian Association for Transactional Analysis)
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Basic Skills In Counselling (Parivarthan)
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Couple and Family Counselling (Parivarthan)
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Child and Adolescent Counselling (Parivarthan)
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Breathwork Therapy
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Sand Tray Therapy (Parivarthan)
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Certificate course in Human Sexuality (Enfold)
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Grief Counselling (FORTE)
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Art Therapy (Rainbow Inc.)
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TA 101
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Diploma in Counselling Skills (Banjara Academy)
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T Harv Eker's Train The Trainer
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T Harv Eker's Making The Stage
Therapy is a process. Of looking into oneself. Of understanding one’s thoughts, feelings and behaviours. It is a safe space that allows a client to speak about emotions, life situations, life experiences, challenges, dilemmas etc. A space to explore, understand and resolve them.
Main Message
My motto in life is – “Sort your emotions and everything will sort itself out.” Whether life throws bouquets or bricks at us, if we can process the emotions it evokes, have clarity and be able to accept the gains or losses that come with it, then life can sort itself out.
Call to Action
If something is gnawing away at you, not leaving you fulfilled, impacting the quality of your life or robbing you of richness in any manner, you owe it to yourself to look deeper into it. To hear yourself. Simply because you do not deserve to live a lesser life. Discover yourself! Truly! Therapy is one route to do that.
